OBAMA TODAY: no large-scale attacks on the United States' since 9/11

In a long-awaited speech at the National Defense University, Barack Obama claimed that the nature of international terror attacks threatening the United States has changed since Sept. 11, 2001, with 'no large-scale attacks' on America occurring since then.

But his definition of 'large-scale attacks,' his speech made clear, doesn't include the 2013 Boston Marathon attack that wounded hundreds, the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that injured dozens and killed four, and the 2009 attack at Fort Hood that killed 13 and injured 30.

All those attacks had the potential to leave far more American bodies in their wake than they actually did.

The Benghazi attack is generally thought of as a terror attack on U.S. soil, although U.S. diplomatic outposts are not technically sovereign American territory.

'Today, Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his top lieutenants,' Obama said. 'There have been no large-scale attacks on the United States, and our homeland is more secure.'

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